The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

Regular expressions are the secret weapon for searching, validating, and transforming text across almost every programming language. From quick data validation to massive log parsing, regex can save ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...